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Edouard Machery is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily intersects psychology and philosophy, focusing on topics such as the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy and history of science.

The main fields of study in Machery's work include:

  • Psychology

Their subfields of study encompass:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Sociology and Political Science

Machery's research covers a variety of main topics, such as:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

The scientist has published frequently in several academic venues, notably:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Review of Philosophy and Psychology
  • Inquiry
  • Mind & Language
  • Analysis

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Machery include:

  • "What Is a Replication?", 2020, Philosophy of Science
  • "Demographic Differences in Philosophical Intuition: a Reply to Joshua Knobe", 2022, Review of Philosophy and Psychology
  • "Anomalies in implicit attitudes research", 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science
  • "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably", 2024, Scientific Reports
  • "Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences", 2023, Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Edouard Machery include:

  • Kenny Easwaran
  • Jacob Stegenga
  • Kareem Khalifa
  • James Owen Weatherall
  • Kevin Elliott

Machery's work reflects an interdisciplinary approach, blending cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophical inquiry to address questions on moral judgment, cultural values, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.

Best Publications

  • Explaining why experimental behavior varies across cultures: A missing step in “The weirdest people in the world?”

    Edouard Machery

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style.

    Edouard Machery;Ron Mallon;Shaun Nichols;Stephen P. Stich

  • Doing without Concepts

    Edouard Machery

  • PHILOSOPHY WITHIN ITS PROPER BOUNDS

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  • Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience

    Justin Sytsma;Edouard Machery

  • Concept empiricism: a methodological critique.

    Edouard Machery

  • Against Arguments from Reference

    Ron Mallon;Edouard Machery;Shaun Nichols;Stephen Stich

  • The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality

    Markus Werning;Wolfram Hinzen;Edouard Machery

  • Gettier Across Cultures1

    Edouard Machery;Stephen Stich;David Rose;Amita Chatterjee

  • Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental Philosophy

    Florian Cova;Brent Strickland;Brent Strickland;Angela Gaia Felicita Abatista;Aurélien Allard

  • The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Philosophical and Experimental Issues

    Edouard Machery

  • Evolution of morality

    Edouard Machery;Ron Mallon

  • EPISTEMIC INTUITIONS IN FAKE-BARN THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS

    David Colaço;Wesley Buckwalter;Stephen Stich;Edouard Machery

  • Linguistic and metalinguistic intuitions in the philosophy of language

    Edouard Machery;Christopher Y. Olivola;Molly De Blanc

  • Why I stopped worrying about the definition of life... and why you should as well

    Edouard Machery

  • Concepts Are Not a Natural Kind

    Edouard Machery

  • Expertise and Intuitions about Reference

    Edouard Machery

  • De-Freuding Implicit Attitudes

    Edouard Machery

  • Social construction and the concept of race

    Edouard Machery;Luc Faucher

  • Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental Philosophy

    Florian Cova;Brent Strickland;Angela Gaia Felicita Abatista;Aur lien Allard

  • David J. Buller: Adapting minds: Evolutionary psychology and the persistent Quest for human nature,

    Edouard Machery;H. Clark Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Fiery Cushman
Fiery Cushman Harvard University
David Cesarini
David Cesarini New York University
Thomas D. Cook
Thomas D. Cook University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Shaun Nichols
Shaun Nichols Cornell University
Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Anthony G. Greenwald
Anthony G. Greenwald University of Washington
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex

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